“I think that its influence is bad,” said the physician.
“But a little whisky taken just before a meal is the only key that will open my appetite, doctor.”
“I don’t believe in opening things with false keys, sir!” answered the other.
Nor is alcohol the only false key in common use. Pretension, misrepresentation, any means not adapted to the desired end—all are false keys and must fail.
(1715)
Kind Looks—See [Face, An Inviting].
KIND WORDS, VALUE OF
The influence exercised by kind words from certain people can not be measured. I have in mind a retiring, modest man, singular in aspect and manner, who every Sunday visited the house of a friend where the head of the family, a superior man of great position, always bade him “Good-evening,” and kindly asked after his health. His simple words were so valued by this lonely man that when his friend died and he could no longer receive his kindly greeting, he left his employment and the city, dying in his turn of sorrow, in some obscure and unknown place where he had sought refuge.—Dora Melegari, “Makers of Sorrow and Makers of Joy.”
(1716)
KINDLINESS, SENSE OF